Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Keeping Marriage Public
Prof. Stephanie Coontz recently took to the pages of the New York Times to inform us that…
On Christian Hope
Pope Benedict XVI released his new encyclical letter, Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope), November 30, just two…
A Changed Stem Cell Debate
Sometimes political discussions get so bogged down that people’s views get set in stone. With advocates on…
John Paul II and the Jews
More than any other pope, John Paul II was the twentieth century’s greatest papal friend and supporter…
The Devil’s Party
The film version of The Golden Compass opens on December 7 and it’s worth remembering that the…
The Art of Transgression
Contemporary art refuses any set form, content, or medium—but it does, nonetheless, insist on one sure commandment:…
Faith by the Numbers
Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faithby daniel j. cohen johns hopkins university press, 256 pages, $50…
To Have and to Hold
Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Ageby kay s. hymowitz ivan…
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Horace’s Satires I:VI
When I am in the mood, I go explore / entirely alone and ascertain / the prices…
Letters—December 2007
Heated Debate Over Climate Marcuse had it right—science is no neutral arbiter of truth. That goes for…
Saving Ecumenism from Itself
The Oberlin conference on The Nature of the Unity We Seek, which met fifty years ago, in…
America’s Two Foundings
Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence—together…
The Curious Case of Free Exercise
On June 1, 1925, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Pierce v. Society of the Sisters…
The Mother of God at Prayer for the Kingdom of God
The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year¯following its initial statement,…